Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of…

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

— Woody Allen

“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for we possess…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from…

— Dennis Vickers

“Golden head by golden head, Like two pigeons in one nest Folded in each other's wings, They lay down in their curtained bed: Like…

— Christina Rossetti

“It’s hard to exaggerate how much the “like” button changed the psychology of Facebook use. What had begun as a passive way to track…

— Adam Alter

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.

— Woody Allen

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful.

— G. H. Hardy

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him,…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

— Albert Einstein

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

— Paul Halmos

A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can only specialise…

— George Polya

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy